The Oregon Department of Education is seeking to root out white supremacy in mathematics, manifested by emphasis on “getting the right answer” and making students “show their work.”
As reported Monday by the attentive folks at the College Fix, Oregon’s progressive Department of Education has furnished educators with an 82-page training manual titled “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction: Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction.”
The education department mailed the manual to teachers as part of Black History Month.
The manual enumerates signs of “white supremacy culture in the mathematics classroom,” which include a focus on “getting the right answer,” an emphasis on “real-world math,” teaching math in a “linear fashion,” students being required to “show their work,” and grading students based on their demonstrated knowledge of the material.
“In order to embody antiracist math education, teachers must engage in critical praxis that interrogates the ways in which they perpetuate white supremacy culture in their own classrooms, and develop a plan toward antiracist math education to address issues of equity for Black, Latinx, and multilingual students,” the manual declares.
The unavoidably racist and thoroughly demeaning implication is that black students are not capable of “showing their work” or “getting the right answers,” and so teachers must lower the academic bar or remove it altogether.
An impartial observer might even suggest that assuming that students of color are incapable of competing on a level playing field is a manifestation of the deepest form of “white supremacy.”
We have already seen the results of this in our schools.
Correcting them when they say axe instead of ask is also considered racist….but I have seen all colors of stupid people say it… Yes, axe was used properly – a gozillion years ago when slaves and owners still existed in our country…we have evolved (well most of us have anyway!).
Now we have this all over the place – they reduce their perceived IQ immediately upon opening their mouth and talking.
So will extra credit be given for “showing their work”?
Second, will anyone give a sane explanation of how showing their work is an example of white supremacy?
Not showing how a person arrives at a solution and saying it’s an example of white supremacy is a racist excuse for not being able to compete on a level playing field.
Just another example of the dumbing down of our education system.
Americans are getting tired of hearing this White this White that bullshhhht !!!!
Keep on & you will see just what you ask for !!!!!
Why not, all those educators have ever done is go to school. Bunch o pip squeak geeks in bow ties, and ugly dresses.
Taxes are an example of White Supremacy
Having to pay bills is an example of White Supremacy
The internet is an example of White Supremacy
See where I’m going here?
Everyone wants theirs’ and for free.
and they want 15 dollars an hr to not know anything
I would think it is Asian supremacy, actually
America is MAJORITY White & Christian so, if ya don’t like it TUFF & Leave !!!!
We should be doing this in Wicomico schools.
Whites are Supreme & that is the American Dream !!!!!! LOL LOL Like it or Leave !!!!